Men Quotes

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

I'll take a foot fetish with a man and his wife over a foot fetish with a man and his mistress any day. I don't care what they do. You go with it with your marriage and have a good time.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.